Seminars
- Monday, October 7, 1996
- Carmen Fernandez and Mark F.J. Steel, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
- "On Bayesian Modelling of Fat Tails and Skewness."
- Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Wednesday, October 9, 1996
- General Examination
- Andrew A. Schaffner
- "Benchmarks, Facets, and the World-Wide Web: Tools for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education."
- Advisor: David Madigan
- Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Thursday, October 10, 1996
- General Examination
- Carlos Diaz Avalos
- "Space-time analysis of forest fires."
- Advisor: Julian Besag
- Social Work 32 at 11:30 A.M.
- Thursday, October 10, 1996 (re-scheduled)
- (Joint with the Department of Biostatistics)
- Tom Fleming, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Biostatistics Department, University of Washington
- "First Seminar - Academic Year 1996 - 1997."
- Health Science T-639 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, October 14, 1996
- Carmen Fernandez and Mark F.J. Steel, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
- "Reference Priors in non-Normal Location Problems."
- Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, October 21, 1996
- Peter Guttorp, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
- "The use of hidden Markov models in scientific applications."
- Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, October 28, 1996
- Ross H. Taplin, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Murdoch University, Australia
- "The Statistical Analysis of Preference Data."
- Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, November 4, 1996
- Dr. Tim Hesterberg, Research Scientist, Data Analysis Products Division, MathSoft, Inc.
- "Tecumseh's Revenge, Paul Bunyan's Dog, and Seismic Deformation Estimation."
- Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Wednesday, November 6, 1996
- General Examination - Angshuman Saha
- "Application of Ridge Regression in Compartmental Models."
- Advisor: Finbarr O'Sullivan
- Thomson 135 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, November 11, 1996
- Veteran's Day.
- Monday, November 18, 1996
- "Job Search Seminar."
- Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, November 25, 1996
- Douglas B. Clarkson, Senior Research Scientist, Data Analysis Products Division, MathSoft, Inc.
- "A Random Effects Individual Differences Multidimensional Scaling Model."
- Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, December 2, 1996
- Donald Percival, Senior Mathematician, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington
- "Spectrum Estimation by Wavelet Thresholding of Multitaper Estimators."
- Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, December 9, 1996
- Adam Finkelstein, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
- "Curve Editing and Image Querying: Two Applications of Wavelets in Computer Graphics."
- Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.